Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter deals with another group of modernistas, mostly from the Catholic cities of Western Mexico, who are quite different from those examined in Chapter 6. Although they often met with the other group in Mexico City or shared the pages of the Revista Moderna, their approach to modernity is so different that it deserves a separate analysis. Modernismo can be defined by its able incorporation of Romanticism, Symbolism, and Parnassianism, but in the case of this group, there is a scepticism towards several aspects of these aesthetic movements, which always acts as a path that leads back to provincial life, landscape, and a national (and again Catholic) decorum. The authors studied in this chapter include Luis G. Urbina, Enrique González Martínez, Francisco González León, Manuel José Othón, and, in pride of place, Ramón López Velarde.
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